Dr. Damadian, the president of Fonar Inc. of Melville, N.Y., a manufacturer of M.R.I. machines, complained loudly and publicly after the Nobel Prize in Medicine last year, recognizing "discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging," went to Dr. Paul C. Lauterbur of the University of Illinois and Sir Peter Mansfield of the University of Nottingham in England.
Deisseroth recognized the discovery as being potentially revolutionary.
Indeed, the 2000 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, awarded to American chemists Alan J. Heeger and Alan G. MacDiarmid and Japanese chemist Shirakawa Hideki, recognized the discovery of plastics that conduct electricity.
Dr. Woese received many honors and awards, including a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" grant in 1984, the National Medal of Science in 2000 and the Crafoord Prize in Biosciences from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2003, which recognized his "discovery of a third domain of life".
Matthew Meyerson, HMS professor of pathology and director of the Center for Cancer Genome Discovery at Dana-Farber Cancerecognizede, was recognized for discovery of EGFR mutations in lung cancer and their ability to predict responsiveness to EGFR inhibitors, thereby helping to establish the current paradigm of precision cancer therapy.
The 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry recognized the discovery of conducting polymers and over 25 years of progress in this field [2, 3].
Dr. Greengard's Nobel Prize, which was shared with Eric R. Kandel of Columbia University and Arvid Carlsson of Gothenberg University in Sweden, recognized his discoveries of how nerve cells communicate with one other.
The award, recognizing the discovery of the genes and proteins that control daily rhythms such as our sleep-wake cycles, was shared by Jeffrey Hall, PhD, and Michael Rosbash, PhD, both of Brandeis University, and Michael Young, PhD, of Rockefeller University.
His Nobel prize recognizes "his discovery of Prions a new biological principle of infection," the prize citation says.
Oberlin et al. [7] unknowingly discovered SWCNT of a diameter less than 100 Å in 1976; however, they did not fully recognize the discovery and described their SWCNT as a carbon filament.
